Synonyms of melancholy

1 Syllable

drear, blue, sad, low, glum, grief, pall, down, spleens, mood, woe, spleen, grim

2 Syllables

joyless, bleakness, saddest, droopy, moony, moody, glummer, palling, wistful, dismal, downcast, palled, heartsick, mopey, mournful, trite, mirthless, sorrow, piteous, broody, woeful, megrim, despair, drearier, dreary, cheerless, downbeat, sadness, pity, let-down, beefing, sadder, pities, ennui, moodier, dragged, somber, wretched, bummed, destroyed, tristful, despairs, morbid, sorry, megrims, gloomy

3 Syllables

despondent, cheerlessness, saddening, downcastness, despaired, dirgeful, infirmness, funereal, elegiac, malaise, chapfallen, grief-stricken, anguished, plaintive, miseries, misery, unhappiest, dreariness, woefulness, abjectness, dejection, pessimism, unhappy, despairing, downhearted, depressing, doleful, dolorous, lugubrious, depressed, threnodial, sorrowed, saddened, mulligrubs, museful, depression, joylessness, splenetic, pensive, emotions, unhappier, depressions, sorrowful, emotion, godawful, dysphoric, morose, worriment, dejected, spiritless, mournfulness, sorrowing

4 Syllables

hopelessness, dolefulness, sorrowfulness, lachrymose, lamentable, deplorable, saturnine, condolement, unhappiness, down-in-the-mouth, low-spirited, woebegone, heavyhearted, desperation, downheartedness, pessimistic, disheartenment, dolesome, dolorific, dispirited, drearisome, dispiriting, despondence, dirgelike, fatalistic, melancholic, acheronian, perversive, tenebrific, spiritlessness, miserable, morbidity, morbidities

5 Syllables

dispiritedness, ruminative, disconsolate, disconsolation, lugubriosity, discouragement

6 Syllables

disconsolateness